Zahran Hashim

Zahran Hashim was a Sri Lankan extremist imam who led National Thowheeth Jama'ath and masterminded the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings.

Biography
Zahran Hashim was an extremist Muslim cleric who was known for his fiery Islamist rhetoric on social media (including the pro-ISIS "al-Ghuraba Media" Facebook account) and for being a prolific lecturer for National Thowheeth Jama'ath. In 2019, he planned an attack on the Indian embassy in Colombo, but the attack never came to fruition. Instead, in the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings, over 350 people were killed in a series of suicide bombings at three churches and three five-star hotels across Sri Lanka.